• 60 Seconds with Swett: Navigating the Next Five Years in Seniors Housing M&A

    Are we entering the golden age of seniors housing? Next year, the first baby boomers will start turning 80, and with the current lack of new construction, occupancy rates are already rising before the real demographic wave hits. Many investors, both veterans and those new to our space, will feel pressure to grow their seniors housing holdings to... Read More »
  • Blackstone Sheds Another Asset from Its Seniors Housing Portfolio

    Blueprint handled a couple of sales in Florida and Nevada. The first in Florida involved a global private equity firm selling a 145-unit assisted living and memory care community in Boca Raton, Florida. Ben Firestone, Dillon Rudy and Jacob Ghel of Blueprint facilitated The Atrium at Boca Raton’s ownership transfer. The community presented certain... Read More »
  • CareTrust REIT Establishes SHOP Platform

    Three Texas seniors housing communities with 270 assisted living and memory care units were acquired by CareTrust REIT, Inc. The publicly traded REIT purchased the communities for $40 million, or $148,100 per unit. This marks the first investment of CareTrust’s SHOP platform. The communities were 86% occupied at the time of acquisition and will... Read More »
  • Ensign Grows Through Separate Transactions in Three States

    The Ensign Group, Inc. increased its portfolio through three separate acquisitions in Kansas, Arizona and Colorado. The publicly traded provider expanded its growing Midwest footprint through its Kansas acquisition of the real estate and operations of Willow Point Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a 45-bed skilled nursing facility in Kansas... Read More »
  • Developer/Operator Divests to PE Firm

    A developer and operator sold Rivertown Ridge, a Class-A seniors housing community in the Grand Rapids suburb of Wyoming, Michigan, to a private equity firm. This community, built in 2020, features 152 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care, and has exhibited strong performance.  The seller, Redstone Homes, was... Read More »
Foundry Commercial and Fundamental Advisor Announces Another Acquisition

Foundry Commercial and Fundamental Advisor Announces Another Acquisition

Ziegler’s Dan Revie and Tedd Van Gorden represented the seller of a 120-unit seniors housing community in Kansas. Featuring 60 assisted living, 40 memory care and 20 physician-directed care units, the sale also included an adjacent vacant lot where the new owner, a joint venture between Foundry Commercial and Fundamental Advisors, plans to develop independent living cottages.   Foster Senior Living will manage the community for the joint venture, which has already acquired six communities since forming in June, with other assets in Nebraska and South Carolina. Fundamental Advisors, in partnership with Scribner Capital, also provided the joint venture... Read More »
Ziegler Secures Two More CCRC Bond Financings

Ziegler Secures Two More CCRC Bond Financings

Ziegler’s impressive run of activity continued with a couple of financings closed in the normally quiet week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. The larger transaction saw $136.77 million of public bonds and bank capital closed for People of Faith, Inc., d/b/a Royal Oaks Life Care Community. Originally established in Sun City, Arizona in 1981, the CCRC consists of 258 independent living apartments, 102 IL garden homes, 59 assisted living units, 56 memory care units, and a 60-bed high acuity assisted living care center, which replaced the former skilled nursing facility on the 50-acre campus.   Ownership has a 20-year master plan to expand the property... Read More »
Ohio Obligated Group Secures Bond Financing

Ohio Obligated Group Secures Bond Financing

The Methodist Retirement Center of Central Ohio, a not-for-profit, faith-based corporation doing business as The Wesley Communities, recently refinanced its three senior living communities in the Columbus, Ohio area with a bond financing arranged by Ziegler. This was Ziegler’s first underwriting with The Wesley Communities. The portfolio comprises 668 units of independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing. However, the obligated group excluded the assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing units at one campus and the AL and MC units at another (260 units altogether) that were financed by HUD. So, the obligated group actually consists of 408 units... Read More »
Symphony Care Network Acquires Four of Its Operated Communities

Symphony Care Network Acquires Four of Its Operated Communities

Ziegler’s Senior Housing & Care Finance Practice has been busy this month, reportedly closing a number of transactions in the last week, the most recent one for a portfolio of four skilled nursing facilities and one assisted living community in Illinois. Christopher Utz arranged and negotiated a $49.4 million debt placement for the current operator, Symphony Care Network, to acquire the portfolio from its REIT landlord. There are a total of 616 licensed skilled nursing beds and 109 assisted living units, and Symphony has been operating the properties since 2012.   Given the more conservative lending requirements nowadays, we imagine the portfolio was able to more than... Read More »
Ziegler Brokers Another Bank Bond Financing

Ziegler Brokers Another Bank Bond Financing

Ziegler has been on a roll lately, closing one bank bond financing after another for CCRC clients across the country. Its latest closing, working with Truist and Hancock Whitney, was for a not-for-profit CCRC in Fort Myers, Florida.   Founded in 1995, the community has grown over the years to include 333 independent living units, 44 IL villas, 44 assisted living units, 44 memory care units and a 64-bed/unit skilled nursing facility. It sits adjacent to HealthPark Medical Center and close to both Estero Bay Preserve State Park and Fort Myers Beach.  To replace outstanding debt, reimburse and fund certain capital expenditures and fund a debt service reserve... Read More »